[Q] Soft Brick, can't get past boot screen

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My phone crashed this morning after running the daily OMFGB from the 31st for a few days. I tried to restart, it won't go past the Glitch Kernel screen. When I go into recovery, I am greeted with this message:

ClockwordMod Recovery v4.0.1.0
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

wiping data, did not help. reflashing the rom and kernel did not help. I still can't start the phone. What are the steps I need to take to fix this as I am currently not able to use my phone at all.

Originally Posted by alemondemon

My phone crashed this morning after running the daily OMFGB from the 31st for a few days. I tried to restart, it won't go past the Glitch Kernel screen. When I go into recovery, I am greeted with this message:

ClockwordMod Recovery v4.0.1.0
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/log
E: can't mount /cache/recovery/last_log
E: can't open /cache/recovery/last_log

wiping data, did not help. reflashing the rom and kernel did not help. I still can't start the phone. What are the steps I need to take to fix this as I am currently not able to use my phone at all.

Same thing happened to me yesterday..the only way I got my phone working again was to odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2..reboot fully...I then tried to go back to cm7 and got the same message and the only way I was about to fix it was to flash the com rom 2.0 obviously wipe everything before..let that boot and tried to flash cm7 with the recovery from com rom....still same message...i had to odin otb3.x.x.recovery... Download times infinity's recovery zip and flash that in otb recovery, then reboot recovery so I had ti's purple recovery...wipe everything and flash cm7...and success! I used the 7/17 build cause I didn't want nightly then rebooted from power button menu and flashed glitch and gapps.

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Oh my goodness, sounds like something is really busted. Do you think it is OMFGB related? Yikes.

I have same thing, but I cant get the phone to show in download mode to odin anything

Same here. I'm now stuck in a boot loop. I can't even restore a backup.

Edit: Just tried to do a restore and the MD5 Sums don't match. I've had to do Odin reset three times today.

I think I might do Vodoo and try to restore that way. I will report back.

Originally Posted by alemondemon

Oh my goodness, sounds like something is really busted. Do you think it is OMFGB related? Yikes.

No I don't think its omfgb related cause I've never ran that rom but I do think it has something to do with all the different recoveries we have floating around and so many different builds with different formats things are bound to get screwed up...my problem came from forgetting to wipe before flashing a different kernel and got me stuck in a boot loop.


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I've had this problem ever since I got my Fascinate and tried to get CM7 on it. (2 days ago) I was always able to flash new builds just fine if I managed to get into the orange recovery and not the CM7 one. I believe the one I used was the one on ROM Manager.

This is kinda upsetting...

Originally Posted by Hyphnx

Same here. I'm now stuck in a boot loop. I can't even restore a backup.

Its not the quickest but it should get you back...odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2pit...and reboot. Then odin recovery boot immediately to recovery via 3 finger salute...wipe everything and flash the rom you want...I've had good luck with cwm 3-30 fix all or otb 3x.x.x....if you want to go to cm7 odin the fixed recovery in jt's post and flash cm7 from that recovery....the sticky in the dev section...going from cm7/miui/gb to any other rom should give you some good info and instructions


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Originally Posted by efan450

Its not the quickest but it should get you back...odin eb01 with the atlas 2.2pit...and reboot. Then odin recovery boot immediately to recovery via 3 finger salute...wipe everything and flash the rom you want...I've had good luck with cwm 3-30 fix all or otb 3x.x.x....if you want to go to cm7 odin the fixed recovery in jt's post and flash cm7 from that recovery....the sticky in the dev section...going from cm7/miui/gb to any other rom should give you some good info and instructions


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We are having problems with the recovery he posted in his post.

Tried CWM-Recovery-All, turned my phone into muffed up phone. UGH!

Sorry for the double post. I've had to Odin 2 more times which makes it a total of 5 today. I used all the recoveries that are available. One at a time and they all end in the same way.